Boko Haram

The horrific attack by Islamist al-Shabab fighters on a college campus in Kenya this month that left 149 people dead and scores wounded was an awful reminder that sub-Saharan Africa has become a major battleground in the war on terror. Until recently, the focus of the U.S. and its allies has been mainly on terrorist networks in the Middle East and South Asia such as al-Qaida and its offshoots. But the tentacles of radical Islam now stretch far beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to threaten the African countries that are home to nearly a fifth of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims. Unless extremist groups like the Somalia-based al-Shabab and Boko Haram in Nigeria are defeated, a human rights...

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The horrific attack by Islamist al-Shabab fighters on a college campus in Kenya this month that left 149 people dead and scores wounded was an awful reminder that sub-Saharan Africa has become a major battleground in the war on terror. Until recently, the...

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Last month, I wrote about the kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls by a band of putative men who style themselves "Boko Haram" -- "Western Education is Forbidden." Taken in concert...

The kidnapping of 276 Nigerian school girls by the Boko Haram insurgency has finally drawn attention to the group's murderous, five-year-long crusade, which, unlike attacks by Islamist militants elsewhere, has largely focused on school children.
In...

Dozens of students from mostly all-girls schools throughout the area poured onto War Memorial Plaza in front of Baltimore City Hall on Friday afternoon, pumping signs in the air and chanting "bring back our girls."They were there to add their...

Two women suicide bombers blew themselves up at a bustling market in northeast Nigeria's Madagali town on Friday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 67, an army spokesman told The Associated Press. The attack comes as Nigeria's government...

The killers came hunting their former teachers, gunning them down in their offices and in their classrooms.
At the top of Boko Haram’s kill list: head teachers, examiners, primary school staff and science and geography teachers,...

Thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday quoting a new survey that is forcing Nigerian officials to stop denying the crisis. The Paris-based organization...

Lawmakers in northeastern Nigeria are investigating new allegations that officials have diverted crucial food aid intended for people who have fled from Boko Haram extremists. The allegations in Adamawa state center on officials and market traders accused...

Nigerian government officials, soldiers and police are raping and sexually exploiting women and girl refugees from Boko Haram, instead of protecting them, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday.
Shortages of food, medicine and clothing in refugee...